Mark Jay is a film-maker, writer and visual artist who has been causing cultural disruptions for almost half a century.  His documentary and fiction films have gained awards at international festivals and are in worldwide distribution.

Mark started SKuM ‘zine  in 1976 aged 14 after bumping into members of the Sex Pistols in Rock On record shop in Camden.  Issue #1 featured Sid Vicious’ first interview with his band The Flowers of Romance.  Mark became an early face on the UK Punk scene— getting arrested on the Pistols’ Jubilee Boat Party, designing the cartoon poster for their debut LP, and stowing- away on the Clash’s Out of Control tour.

In 1979 Mark co-produced the post-Punk poetry ‘zine All the Poets, in London and San Francisco.

Mark has recently published two Punk Poemtry volumes on the Spinners imprint available

GESHMACK X GESHEFT (Tasty X Biznez), chronicling his extra curricular escapades from 1972-78 from Skinhead Moonstomps to Dead End Career Opportunities (that never knock).

FIVE YEARS (Between the Gutter and the Galaxies), which rips into the collision of Bowie and Primal Punk—where Rebel Rebels tore through 1972–76 Britain, spawning the Hot Tramps and theYoung Dudes who would carry Bowie’s spark forward into the chaos.   

Both volumes are companions-in-spit to Mark’s forthcoming novel / Midrashic memoir of misbehaviour—THE NUDNIKS OF 1977  — to be published in 2026 by Spinners, which delves further into his back catalogue of sedition and religious disobedience.

Mark’s poemtry and prose employs an unreliable lexicon of Yinglish – a language of coughing and cursing brought over from Eastern European Shtetls in the 1880’s and stirred into the melting-pot of Cockney East London’s pie & mash emporiums.

Follow Mark’s instagram  @mark.jay6262  or schlep through his website www.markjay.tv